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The KILL ONE Race

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Illustration by Kyle Ellingson

Are you concerned about the influence of reality-competition shows? Raja Feather Kelly seems to be. With “The KILL ONE Race,” the choreographer of “A Strange Loop” and “Fairview” has devised a satire of TV competitions—a reductio ad absurdum in which seven contestants jockey to see who is the most ethical, and the winner dies. The project invokes and implicates multiple devices of the genre—speed dating, interview confessions, lots of dancing—and if “The Hunger Games” is an influence, so, too, are the metafictional film “Symbiopsychotaxiplasm” and a dystopian novel, invented for the play, called “Kill One.” Solid ground should be scarce. The work, filmed in the Playwrights Horizons theatre, is being released in seven episodes, June 4-13, on thekillonerace.com. (June 4-June 13.)